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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum collects food for Connecticut Food Bank

“We are pleased to work with Quinnipiac University to give back to our community,” ClairePuzarne, manager of the museum, said in the release.“It is especially fitting and meaningful to focus our efforts on helping to end hunger in Connecticut.”

The museum, at 3011 Whitney Ave., "ishome to the world’s largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials relating to the Irish Famine.The museumpreserves, builds and presents its art collection to stimulate reflection, inspire imagination and advance awareness of Ireland's Great Hunger,a tragic period in Irish history from 1845-52 when more than one million people died of famine or famine-related diseases."

also: "Works by noted contemporary Irish artists are featured at the museum including internationally known sculptors John Behan, Rowan Gillespie and Éamonn O'Doherty; as well as contemporary visual artists, Robert Ballagh, Alanna O'Kelly, Brian Maguire and Hughie O'Donoghue. Featured paintings include several important 19th- and 20th‐century works by artists such as James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O'Connor and Jack B. Yeats."

The museum, free to the public, is open Wednesdays,10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays,10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays,1-5 p.m.For information, visitwww.ighm.orgor call203-582-6500.

Editor's note: All information and the photo in this post were contributed. Click one of the buttons below to share it.

In the photo: Elizabeth
C McGarry, a Quinnipiac University employee, sorts non-perishable food items
that Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University collected for the
Connecticut Food Bank.Photo
by Autumn Driscoll of Quinnipiac University.

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